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we can apply it to our own lives and that's what dylan is about, he's singing our songs for us. >> bob dylan turns 80 years old today. charles pierce and richard thomas, thank you both very much for joining us this morning. and that does it for us this morning. stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage right now. ♪♪ hi, there i, i'm stephanie ruhle live at msnbc headquarters here in new york city. it is monday, may 24th. there's a lot going on. let's get a little smarter. this morning as we get closer to the official start of summer, covid cases are at their lowest level in almost a year, with nearly half of all u.s. adults fully vaccinated. excellent news. just a few moments ago, we learn learned new york city school district, the largest in the nation will be fully reopened in
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person starting this fall with no remote learning. but at the same time the cdc is now investigating some reports about potential heart issues in some children who got the vaccine. while in the middle east, the violence between israel and hamas has stopped for now. the cease-fire is holding. but here in the united states developing a very different story. a wave of anti-semitic hate crimes are being reported all over this country. and there's breaking news this morning about a meeting with president biden and russian president vladimir putin. we will get to all of that but we want to start on coronavirus with tom costello, dr. gupta, nbc medical contributor. how is it looking, we're one week away from memorial day when people get together and party? >> absolutely right. it's a week today and memorial day starts thursday in some cases. you're absolutely right.
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it's already starting to a return to normal. take a look at the stats. you alluded to them at the stop but they are encouraging. cases are at their lowest level in a year og so. down 20% compared to the week before. hospitalizations are down 15%. deaths down 14% from two weeks ago. more than 60% of the country had at least one shot and seven states had more than 60% of their people who had that already. listen, the states with the lowest rates of vaccinations right now, alabama, arkansas, georgia, louisiana, mississippi, tennessee, those states all below 40%. but with the country really starting to get back to normal, we are see thatting that over this past weekend especially. if you were out and about, you probably saw it yourself, parades and sporting events and concerts and graduations and parties and packed restaurants. also though the cdc is paying very close attention to a very few number of cases involving adolescents, teenagers who have
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reported a heart condition, inflammation of the heart called myocarditis and they don't know if that's connected to teenagers getting the vaccine. specifically it shows up most dominantly in boys and after the second dose. but let's underscore this, they have a few dozen cases of this and the symptoms have really been mild, so not significant, not serious. the symptoms to look out for, mild chest pain, fatigue, shortness of breath and heart arrhythmia. again, in these kids pretty mild but the cdc is investigating whether there's any length at all between the second vaccine dose and myocarditis in these teenagers, young teenagers. we're talking 13 to 16 years old. but the headlines on the covid front are very, very encouraging as the country is reopening its
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door nationwide. back to you. >> dr. gupta, i have a couple kids in that age range. how concerned are you about these cases of heart inflammation? >> stephanie, good morning. as tom pointed out, these have been generally speaking mild cases when they happened, less than 20. and stephanie, tens of millions of children have gotten at least one dose. we have to keep in mind mied owe card itis happens, 10 to 15 cases for every 100,000 individuals. this is invoktive of the johnson & johnson blood clotting issue. yes, there might be a rare side effect but it's occurring less than the background rate, the rare this event occurs anyway by chance in the population. we have to keep an eye out but overall not concerned. great to see the reporting for adverse events is working. >> let's talk about vaccine numbers. we know this. president biden wants 70% of
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u.s. adults to get at least one shot by the fourth of july. here's the thing, nine states are already there. we love that news. but almost all of them are in the northeast. what's going on with the rest of the country, specifically the southeast? >> stephanie, this is something to be mindful of come the fall/winter. not every state will get to the same threshold. >> why? >> you know why that matters, stephanie, for a variety of reasons -- politics, unfortunately hesitancy is higher. but what i worry about, we will have about 50 different realities in the county level and thousands of different realities come fall/winter, when covid likes to rear its head again. cold, dry air is what it likes. you will see different realities come the fall/winter so we have to be mindful of that. yes, the country will get a
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well-reprieved in the summer. but workplace desperately need occupation safety and health administration, nigh osh, to come out with direction about vaccines, how do we approach world places and safety with regards to the cdc guidelines on if you're fully vaccinated, we don't need masks. we need more guidance. >> and more and more places of schools and businesses are saying let's go get vaccinated. tom costello, dr. vin gupta, thank you so much. now we have to return to the middle east. cease-fire appears to be holding at least for now. but here at home there's a drastic surge into investigations of anti-semitic hate crimes. president biden took to twitter moments ago saying they're despicable but won't stop. 60 people have been arrested after a thursday clash between
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pro israel and pro palestinian demonstrators a few blocks away from times square. authorities also investigating the assault of a jewish man in the same area showing the video you are looking at now. nypd releasing these pictures of suspects wanted in connection with the attack. down in florida, police in bal harbour are investigating after police said a man in an suv shouted anti-semitic slurs at them. and a man shot out two windows in skokie. they found a stick and sign under the window. the synagogue of the former congresswoman gabby giffords was vandalized. and in california officials joined u.s. authorities in arresting man in an l.a. and there was an attack on several men outside of a restaurant. police are investigating two other men last week as possible anti-semitic hate crimes. i can't believe all i'm reading. overall the anti-defamation
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league said it has gotten more than 190 reports of possible anti-semitic incidents in the united states in the week after fighting began between israel and hamas. that is up from 131 incidents the week prior. the adl also says anti-semitic attacks are increasing online with 17,000 tweets using variations of the phrase, ready for this one? "hitler was right," from may 7th to may 14th. gives you the chills. we have the associate director from the anti-defamation league. deb, what can you tell us about the attacks in times square? >> sure, steph. two dueling process here in times square. one pro palestinian group protesting and one pro israeli groups protesting. this 29-year-old israeli man was
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attacked by a gang of member yelling slurs, kicking him, punching him. one man hitting him with a crutch. he said looking back at the video that was captured by a phone, he thought he may have been killed during it. there's been one arrest so far, multiple charges including an alleged hate crime and police say they're looking for other suspects. in this country we have such strong political, personal ties to the middle east, filled with a large jewish population and large muslim population. we have seen in the past when there's conflict over there, that things erupt over here. now have as you pointed out the anti-defamation league, crunch the numbers here and seen a 50% increase since the violence kicked off yet again in the middle east. you also have the head of the muslim public affairs council in los angeles coming out and condemning the violence against
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both muslims and jews in this country calling it despicable and he says that kind of reaction to what's going on in the middle east isn't going to help anybody's cause, steph. >> joanna, the adl sent a letter to the white house. what action do you want the president to take? yes, he's calling these things despicable, reprehensible, wants them to stop. but what do you want him to do? >> in each moment in which we see this anti-semitic incident take place across the country, we need our leaders to use their bully pulpit to speak out vociferously, directly and immediately to denounce this type of hate. we welcomed the tweet today from president biden, but we issued a letter over the weekend, along with four other jewish organizations asking biden to forcibly speak out against this growing trend. we need leaders as we've seen in the previous administration when there is a vacuum, when we have leaders who are not willing to use their voice to create
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guardrails of what is acceptable in this country. it allows hate to fester. and until then where he will continue to have a problem here in this country. and so we ask president biden use your voice. appoint an ambassador at large to monitor and combat anti-semitism. re-establish a white house liaison to represent the jewish communities, issues and concerns. and sadly, jews around the country as you have noted in terms of the rise of anti-semitic incident, 2019 we saw the highest year on record since we've been tracking anti-semitic incidents. and last year, although we were grateful for a 4% increase -- 4% decrease, this is the largest -- third largest incident in the last -- since 1979 that we have on record. so we need to address this. >> joanna, you're asking the
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white house to speak out against this. what do we do when it's government leaders who are the ones spreading it? republican colleagues are describing their own colleague, republican congresswoman marjorie taylor greene, they're saying her comments are beyond reprehensible. i want to share -- and we almost never share any of the things that she says, but i want to share what he said about house rules around mask wearing. listen to this -- >> we can look back at a time in history where people were told to wear a gold star and they were definitely treated like second class citizens, so much so they were put in trains and taken to gas chambers in nazi, germany. and this is exactly the type of abuse that nancy pelosi is talking about. >> joanna, as a general rule, our goal in this hour is help our viewers get better and smarter. nothing we have ever from marjorie taylor greene falls into that category. however, when she says something
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like this, how dangerous, how detrimental can it be? >> we're talking about a health crisis in other country and her comparison to the holocaust as parallel is not only inappropriate but it is offensive. and these comparisons that peddle in exaggeration and deflection essentially trivialize the holocaust. they desensitize us to a mass again side that took place here in our world in nazi germany and rather we encourage her to legislate and stop politicizing jewish trauma for her own purposes. >> 6 million jews were killed. let's remind our audience of that. joanna, stephanie, thank you both so much. we have to share more on the fragile cease-fire between israel and hamas. fragile is the important word. entering its fourth day, president biden asked tony
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blinken to travel to tel aviv this late. we're live with kelly cobiella. what's the latest? >> stephanie, the situation in gaza is absolutely dire. there were officials from the united nations, palestinian refugee agencies there over the weekend, surveying the damage. we heard this before. yes, the cease-fire is holding but it's an incredibly fragile cease-fire as you mentioned. there were a few skirmishes over the weekend but despite that, no big conflagrations, no big incidents. back to gaza for a moment though, that u.n. referee agency spokesperson said, look, there has to be a real solution here. there has to be a solution for palestinians, a genuine focus on human development, access to education and jobs. that's what he told reporters when he was in gaza. he also said there has to be a genuine political process, and that will be the job of the
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secretary of state antony blinken to get that process started when he visits this region. he's going to be here this week. he will be visiting jerusalem. he will talk to prime minister benjamin netanyahu. then on to the west bank to speak to the palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas and he will be in cairo and amman, jordan. it will be a tough, tough task. >> indeed it is. kelly, stay safe. let's turn to breaking news out of washington. nbc news, brand-new reporting on a potential meeting between president biden and russian president vladimir putin. geoff bennett at the white house with this breaking news. geoff, what do you know? >> stephanie, good morning. four officials tell our team geneva, switzerland, is the likely venue between president biden and russian president vladimir putin. you will remember president biden last month said it was his hope and expectation to sit down with the president's russian
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counterpart and his travels take him to europe next month. he's going to the g7 summit in the uk and brussels june 11th to june 14th. i'm told any potential sit-down with biden and putin would likely happen after the international engagements. this meeting would likely happen with de-escalation between the u.s. and russia becoming fraught and adversarial over russia's election interference and ongoing cyberattacks. the president last month after he hit russia with another round of sanctions said the u.s. is not looking to kick off a cycle with escalation and conflict with russia. we want a staplible, predictable relationship. the sit-down, if it happened, would be aimed at doing this, steph. >> and hopefully unlike the last few years, we will get a readout. coming up -- one year against the death of george
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that anniversary is tomorrow, may 25th, one year from the murder of george floyd. and the president is inviting member of george floyd's family to the white house. shannon, this is admirable and appreciated the president is meeting with the floyd family, but what about legislation? without legislation, what will this meeting do? >> he said he wants to call them to the white house for the bill signing and set an ambitious agenda, and everyone acknowledged that was an ambitious agenda, but the deadline not meeting it but bringing the family in anyway. they told nbc news it was very important for the white house to do something to mark this anniversary. they discussed bringing in
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negotiators at one point but there was concern that could upset this balanced, delicate, negotiations going on in congress right now. so they passed on that idea. bringing the family here instead to make sure something is done to honor that day. >> shaq, even though there's no federal police reform bill, states have been doing a lot on their own and some argue change is happening on a local level are actually more impactful because they know what they need most. they know what works for them. >> that's exactly right, stephanie. when you talk to experts about this, they say thanks to the sustained pressure we've seen, through the protest and activist, police reform has been sweeping across the country at a state that's pretty impressive in their words. i want to tick through some of the numbers we are seeing and reforms we are seeing at the local level. look here. lawmakers in nearly every state have introduced more than 3,000 policing-related bill, more than 30 have passed new police oversight and reform laws since
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may 2020. common reforms include bans on choke holds and neck restraints, updates to the u.s. of force and escalation policies and new expanded body camera policies. some jurisdictions have done more. illinois' new law requires officers to provide an underlining offense when arresting a person for resisting arrest and ends cash bail by 2025. new colorado legislation considered the country's most far-reaching allows officers to be sued for up to $25,000 and ending the liability shield known as qualified immunity. you still have many, many activists saying despite what they are seeing at a local level, they want the pressure to be on congress for that federal legislation. in fact the family through the george floyd foundation, they're calling for a day of akism, to keep pressure up for the george
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floyd justice in policing act to be passed. >> shannon, can you give us a sense of where federal negotiations are on police reforms? >> yes. a bill named after floyd passed the house in march. like most things legislatively, it's stuck in the senate. it's back-and-forth negotiations going on, led by republican tim scott. he sounded optimistic on points they're making. a key sticking point though has been qualified immunity, whether it should be difficult for individuals to sue a police officer. some democrats have indicated they would be willing to compromise on that, potentially leave that out of the bill so that can hopefully move things along. so there's optimism and progress that work is being done in the right direction on that stuff. >> optimism and progress, we will always take that. shannon, shaq, thank you both so much. we will leave it there. coming up -- the big lie, that trump won the election, is creating big problems in arizona
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the markets are set to kick off the week in just a few moments and one major development we are watching in the world of cyst owe currencies, bitcoin tanking. down 50% from its peak just a month ago. so we will go straight to our friend dom chu. we know the treasury department announced last week they're getting ready to crackdown on crypto. >> the regulatory aspect is a big part of this story but not just here but china as well. when you have what could be more scrutiny from the two biggest economies and governments in the world, it's definitely a tougher headwind. on the home front you mentioned treasury, they made the announcement last thursday they're going to require any transfer of cryptocurrency worth of equivalent of $10,000 or more be reported to the internal revenue service. this as the biden administration is really looking to secure more financial resources at this stage, to bolster the irs'
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policing and enforcement of tax collecting when it comes to crypto transactions. if people sell for a profit, the irs wants its cut. and in china they're calling for regulations in crypto trading and cryptocurrency in the process called mining. stephanie, prices for many cryptocurrencies were following even before those catalysts and a lot had to do with the tolerance that new entrants, new traders for things like either rehr dropped. and when that happens, it turns to more trading and that leads to losses. >> day-traders, not investors. dom chu, thank you. the national guard is departing the capitol this morning, more than four months after the january 6th insurrection. at the same time the senate is set to take up the bill to create a bipartisan commission to investigate what in the world happened january 6th, the insurrection, of course.
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after the house passed last week, republican senator susan collins of maine explained how the bill could earn her support. >> the two issues that i think are resolvable. one has to do with staffing and i think both sides should either jointly appoint the staff or there should be equal numbers of staff appointed by the chairman and the vice chairman. the second issue is i see no reasons why the report cannot be completed by the end of this year. >> great, let's do it! and let's discuss it. joining us now, founders of punchbowl news jake sherman and anna palmer. that sounds great. susan collins has the right idea but she's one single republican. democrats need ten. where do they stand on that. >> i think it's going to be a very big uphill battle for chuck schumer to find those ten votes. democrats will be very hesitant to put a time frame susan
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collins is talking about saying just because they don't want it to go into an election year, but they want it to be done to the fullest except. but susan collins is just one member. i think getting to the big ten number will be very, very difficult. >> i want to share what republican roy blount of miss missouri said about all of this. >> i actually opposed the idea of a commission immediately from the very first because i think we'll start waiting for a commission, rather than moving forward with what we know we need to do now. there's a bipartisan effort in the senate with two committees to produce not only a report but also a number of recommendations and we should be able to do that in the first full week of june. >> can democrats work with a plan like is that? the majority of americans don't care how it gets done, they just want it done. >> i don't think, stephanie, wee will get out of that congress without a full investigation
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into january 6th. i think republicans, to be quite honest, are being shortsighted here. this commission gives them more power than they would have otherwise. if nancy pelosi kicks this to a standing committee, democrats would have the majority on every standing committee in the house because they have the majority. this commission that they're proposing gives republicans more power than they would otherwise have. that's number one. number two, i actually think -- i'm not sure yet if susan collins is representative of nine other people, i would tend to agree with anna and say she's not. but if a bunch of people have those concerns, nancy pelosi said those are actually concerns that can be solved quite quickly. if they want the ability to hire staff, they can have the ability to hire staff. and nancy pelosi makes a good point that the september 11 commission did not get signed into law until 2002. almost a year ago the terrorist attacks there was this commission signed into law. so pelosi tends to be taking the long view here and think that
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she will get this through at some point if enough time passes by. >> this isn't about politics though, it's national security. let's talk infrastructure. the white house unveiled their $1.7 trillion counteroffer to republicans on friday. let's be clear, that is three times the cost of the gop's proposal. given that, are republicans going to play any sort of ball here? >> i think it's getting to be hard to see how those two sides will come together. president joe biden has said he wanted to have some sort of measurable progress by memorial day, a week from today. but so far the two sides are very, very far apart. not just the numbers but also the substance. they've come together and had some talks but at the end of the day they're very far apart and democrats will be hesitant to wait out and see if republicans will come their way more. they want to get something done on infrastructure. there are starting to move on
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figuring out how to move just by themselves in the senate. they met with the parliamentarian last week in terms of ficking out that reconciliation process. so to me, i think this is a very, very important week. we're going to know at the end of it whether republicans are going to come up and we're going to find any sort of ability to come to some big package together. >> jake, it was two weeks ago when president biden sat down with our own lawrence o'donnell and it sounded like he wanted to at least play ball in terms of what the republicans' proposal was and maybe they would get other stuff down later. is that no longer an option for him? he wants not necessarily all but a whole lot of nothing? >> it's an option but they're so far apart. republicans don't want any tax increases. democrats don't want user fees because they consider that to be a tax hike and people making less than $400,000. i think they actually agree at this point, stephanie, on
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nothing. that's the reality. at some point in the negotiation you need to pull back and say where are we and what do we agree on? at this point they only agree on the fact they need to do -- they both want to do a bill. that doesn't get you that far. so at some point you really have to kind of pull the plug because democrats are wasting what they would consider to be valuable time in getting this done. they're starting to get pressure from the progressive left to get a deal done. once this gets kicked to the fall, it will be a legislative flurry with government funding, the debt ceiling. you have to strike while the iron is hot and get to the floor when you can get to the floor. i think after this week, if there's not a preachable progress made, which would require one side to give pretty significantly. they're going to have to go by themselves. >> it's not just pressure from the progressive left. they also have pressure from the democrats in the middle saying unless you do something about the s.a.l.t. cap, we're not
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playing ball. or centrists saying this will not fly in my district. it's not like joe biden has all democrats on the same page. >> he doesn't. but to be point, the centrists trying to get this s.a.l.t. cap solved are wimps. they're not making any significant theft. until they make a significant threat, like don't come to me to ask me to vote for the bill unless you repeal the s.a.l.t. caps, they're going to get nowhere. that's just how legislating works. it's not pretty. it's not fair all the time. but if you look -- i'm holding them out as an example but the freedom caucus in the trump era said don't come to me unless you include my provision. centrist democrats are not willing to do that and that's why they won't have any wins. >> we heard from centrist zms from new york and new jersey here this hour said they're not voting for anything unless s.a.l.t. gets addressed. you two better stay close. this story will be getting more interesting this week. we will leave it there for now because this morning, the fallout from the big lie is
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sending ripple effects across the state of arizona, where the so-called audit of the 202 election results will resume moments from now in the state's largest county. maricopa officials had enough, telling the state senate their private auditors keeping documents and a possible lawsuit over all of this. arizona state is warning the county voting machines might be compromised after they were handled by those very auditors. joining us to discuss, the person sounding this alarm, secretary of state katie hobbs. arizona said they wanted auditors to look at 400,000 machines. and now they're saying they're not good to use anymore. what was done and how do you replace them? >> this was when the subpoena was upheld and they tried to appeal the ruling so we wouldn't be at this place now.
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so we sent that notice last week acting on guidance from dhs and i believe the contract between the county is the to the tune of $6 million. >> what would they have done to these machines? >> we don't know, that's the problem. they had access to these machines that election officials lost the chain of custody when they handed them over. those machines were locked in a room where there were no cameras. our equipment expert was not allowed in there. we have no idea what they did. and there's nothing in place where we can determine that the estimate had not been tampered with, with enough assurance that we feel it would be okay to be utilized again. >> $6 million over a whole lot of nonsense. what do you make of maricopa county's republican supervisors now threatening to sue the state senate over this? republicans threatening to sue the state run by republicans? >> right.
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and this is after the republican-led senate held a vote to hold these supervisors in contempt. so this has been a long, ongoing back and forth in the republican party. so i am glad that they're finally stepping up to possibly file a lawsuit because they're the entity in this whole ordeal that has the most standing to do so and we tried to intervene but our legal options are limited. >> here's what i don't get, these auditors were supposedly hired to protect the last election but now they're threatening the next one. how does that even make sense? we haven't even had a next election. >> i'm glad you used the air quote on auditors. this is anything but what we've seen. their end game is disrupt in the future, undermine voters' confidence and continue to perpetuate the big lie. >> who is paying all of these
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people? >> well, we don't know. that's another great question. we don't know who's paying the bill. we know they charged the senate $150,000, which is nowhere near the cost of this operation they're undertaking. oam started a private fund-raising situation, and they're funneling dollars so the people will never know who is paying for that or how much is being paid. >> all of this is legal? it's not just arizona, but matt gaetz said, georgia, you're not. this can all keep happening. privately we don't know how it's funded but disrupting states cause costing a whole lot of money and undermining our democracy. this can happen no problem. it's legal? >> it is a problem and i think the legal issues are in question. we have election officials across the country that we're talking to that are just coming to their seats and looking at arizona to see how they might be able to stop it if it does.
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with 100 people just 50 miles south of philadelphia. around the same time a 6-year-old girl and five others hurt at a party in a park in downtown columbus, ohio. before all of this happened, a 6-year-old boy was shot and killed before an apparent road-rage incident on friday. he was hit while riding in a booster seat in the back of his mom's car in orange county, california. he was on his way to kindergarten. how in the world did this happen? road rage, used to flipping somebody the bird and cursing them out. now you've got a manhunt. what is going on? >> stephanie, good morning, that is correct. chp in california investigating this as an apparent road-rage incident. aiden's mother telling nbc news it all started friday morning when they were going to kindergarten. she was going to drop him off at school when she said a vehicle drove past her aggressively and cut her off.
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she identified what she thinks wa was a man and woman in that vehicle and then drove off. right after she heard a loud noise followed by a crowd from yudt aiden. she turned around and noticed he was hurt from the gunshot and pulled over to try to help him. >> we all loved him so much. i tried to save him while calling 911, but he was losing a lot of blood. and he just didn't deserve that. no one deserves that. >> terrible tragedy here in southern california with the community coming to this memorial, dropping off candles, teddy bears, even a photo of young aiden. meanwhile, a lot of support for the family. they raised almost $200,000 are for funeral costs and announced they have a $50,000 reward for anyone who can help for information to try to catch those responsible.
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meanwhile, authorities are also asking drivers who were driving on this highway friday morning that may have dash cam video to reach out, even if they don't have videos, they also want more witnesses to talk to them and try to give more clues that can help catch those responsible for this, stephanie. >> they can raise $2 million for funeral costs, but they're not going to bring back this boy. quad, thank you very much. coming up -- covering up, a hike school covers up photos of dozens of female students. why? to show less skin. show less sk. ♪ ♪ it's irresistibly delicious. ♪ ♪ more almond breeze, please! ♪
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pictures i thought this is ridiculous. >> absolutely. something that has a lot of people talking, steph. a lot of people very upset. in high school you get your hands on the year book the first thing you do is flip through the pages to find your photo. but when about 80 young ladies did that they got a very big surprise. they say they were embarrassed, shocked, and now they want an apology. >> it was certainly not the picture perfect moment they expected when two freshman at st. johns county florida opened their brand new year book, they immediately noticed something was off, or rather added on. the photos were changed to cover their chest. >> it was surprise and shock and then you feel like it's just gross and embarrassed and very objectified.
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the girls realized they were not alone. >> i was upset and i was uncomfortable that that is how they looked at our photoed. immediately my blood started to boil. >> 80 photos were edited, all female studented deemed to be in dress code violation. it's not just that they were edited but how. here they are before and after. >> basically now their body parts are of additional focus and attention that never would have been there in the first place. >> they felt like their bodies were being shamed and they were embarrassed. >> the parents say they were later told it was modesty editing. they reached out to the school and the district with no response. the school is offering refunds to families upset by the decision. now students and their parents are demanding a formal apology for what they call dress code double standard. >> when the school goes to edit
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out my cleveland in a photo but a swim team photo is okay in speedos sends the message that my body inappropriate. that there is something wrong with it. >> all individual student pictures must be consistent with the st. john's county school district student code of conduct or may be digitally altered. it bans any clothing that is immodest, resaling, or distracting in character. but these girls say their attire didn't fit that bill. >> i think an apology is a huge thing that needs to happen. the long-term view of young women's bodies and the dress code based on that needs to change. >> one of the young ladies you met was wearing the same shirt during that interview that she wore on picture day. we have not heard back from the teacher in charge of that
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